Why Wordpress?
First, I aim to improve this web site by making it more interesting - there is a distinct downside in all theposting being made chronologically - there are some great stories, pictures and videos that are buried and difficult to find. For this reason I'm going to change to Wordpress.
It's a source of software that will enable you to design very good web sites because it uses the world resources of free software brought together by a voluntary organisation with a web site called wordpress.org
This is very different to wordpress.com which is a commercial site that never-the-less offers free blogging facilities in the similar way that Google offers the blogspot.com facilities that I'm using now.
At the moment people are making money by :
1. Using it to design web sites
2. Teaching others how to use Wordpress sometimes at extraordinary prices .
However it doesn't have to cost more than £100 for a very good one day course which is what I paid for the course run by Pootlepress in Manchester this last Monday. Jamie did an excellent job of presenting his course tp ten of us. There's a lot to learn and for me with my old brain it was hard work but this course sets you up to teach yourself - you're given a web site to experiment - Here's mine
Here's the Pootlepress training course details at the moment there are three places left in Manchester on Feb 8th jump in if you're interested with hard work you could build a successful career - it will have to be done by personal contact and you'll have some stiff competition. Great if you like a challenge.
Thursday 17 January 2013
Recognition for an impressive young woman
Hannah Bell has been singled out by the Guardian to write about for her business enterprise.
She set up Lakes Legal to provide legal services for low, fixed rate fees.
I was immediately impressed with Hannah. She joined us in the male preserve of the Pool Room and started playing chess even though she was a beginner. There have been other women showing what they can do - playing pool for their pub team, for instance. The days when women feel the need to be pretty sit up dollies are changing, thank god. Now we're seeing people who can take the lime light and perform with the slightest bit of kerfuffle : people who can show us to live as caring humans without making a thing about it. They just 'stand up' and have the balls to do it as though it comes naturally - and for them - it does.
Make contact with Hannah though her web site
She set up Lakes Legal to provide legal services for low, fixed rate fees.
I was immediately impressed with Hannah. She joined us in the male preserve of the Pool Room and started playing chess even though she was a beginner. There have been other women showing what they can do - playing pool for their pub team, for instance. The days when women feel the need to be pretty sit up dollies are changing, thank god. Now we're seeing people who can take the lime light and perform with the slightest bit of kerfuffle : people who can show us to live as caring humans without making a thing about it. They just 'stand up' and have the balls to do it as though it comes naturally - and for them - it does.
Make contact with Hannah though her web site
Monday 7 January 2013
Saturday 5 January 2013
What an amazing project
The Landfill Orchestra
Children play classical music with instruments that are literally made out of trash they recover from a rubbish tip in Paraguay
I was deeply moved when listened to a teenager playing Bach on a tin can cello.
Children play classical music with instruments that are literally made out of trash they recover from a rubbish tip in Paraguay
I was deeply moved when listened to a teenager playing Bach on a tin can cello.
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